Laing O’Rourke Wales & West won the ‘Value’ category at Constructing Excellence’s, South West Built Environment Awards on 11 June 2010 for the Bristol Heart Institute, a £53 million specialist cardiac hospital in Bristol. Laing O’Rourke was also Highly Commended in the ‘Integration & Collaborative Working’ category.
Hoare Lea was appointed by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (formally United Bristol Healthcare Trust) together with Laing O’Rourke, as part of the Trust’s preferred supply chain. Hoare Lea’s role included mechanical, electrical and public health engineering consultancy and specialist fire engineering services. The building was designed to NHS EnCode standards and achieved a B in its Energy Performance Certificate rating.
The project, delivered under the NHS ProCure21 framework, was recognised for making use of excellent existing clinical services on a very demanding and congested 45 degree sloping site, in order to produce a world-class model of care. The scheme comprises two blocks connected by a central atrium with underfloor heating. It incorporates 14,000m2 of acute medical facilities over five levels and included four state-of-the-art catheter labs and a hybrid catheter/cardiac surgery theatre.
Nine regional Constructing Excellence Awards ceremonies will take place across the UK during 2010. These will culminate in a national final in London in November.
For more information on the awards go to http://www.buildsw.org.uk/winners
Paragraph four courtesy of Laing O’Rourke.
